A sex scandal this week led to the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus and shut the door on a promising political career. Washington's halls of power are littered with the corpses of political careers killed by a sexual indiscretions. Here are six types of career-ending political affairs.

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President Obama is speaking in Cleveland Wednesday, laying out more details of his plan to get the economic recovery back in gear: $50 billion for infrastructure spending; a $100 billion R&D tax credit; and $200 billion to induce U.S. companies to make capital improvements now rather than later.

For all of its recent pain and humiliation -- the hoopla surrounding the protracted departure of basketball star LeBron James, and the deaths of native sons Harvey Pekar and George Steinbrenner -- Cleveland is poised to emerge unbent, unbroken and stronger than ever.